Oil on paper
USA, 2005
Inka Essenhigh (b. 1969) – American contemporary painter
Signed with the artist’s initials lower right ‘IE’
Framed
Dimensions: 30 ½ x 20 ¼ in. (77.5 x 51.4 cm.)
Frame dimensions: 40 ¼ x 30 in. (102.2 x 76.2 cm.)
Very good condition
Estimate $4,000-$6,000

Provenance

Institut Valencia d’Art Modern.

Fraught with dreamlike intensity, this work by American painter Inka Essenhigh creates a surreal sensibility within its environment. A figurative form with a snake-like body and human face is wrapped around the peak of a mountain with a broken top. A smaller figure with a skull-like face, perhaps representing death, pulls the larger figure down as it grasps on for its life.

Ink Essenhigh (American, b. 1969)

With a distinctively graphic style of painting, Inka Essenhigh’s works draw on an awareness of contemporary culture and her immediate environment. Born in Pennsylvania, Essenhigh studied at the School of Visual Arts, New York. Infused with dreamlike and surreal imagery, her work is in the collections of major museums including Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY; Denver Art Museum; Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami; Museum of Modern Art / P.S.1 Center for Contemporary Art, New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Seattle Art Museum; Tate, London; Virginia Museum of Fine Art, Richmond and Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.

Condition

In overall good condition, unexamined out of frame.

Shipping costs excl. statutory VAT and plus 2,5% (+VAT) shipping insurance.